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Jack Tame

Host and Writer at Newstalk ZB

Columnist at New Zealand Herald

Host, Q+A at TVNZ

Uncouth eyebrows and an awkward running technique.

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  • 5 days ago | newstalkzb.co.nz | Jack Tame

    The centre of the world.  It’s a funny concept, really, because on a planet with 8 billion people, the world’s attention never settles on any one event or thing for much more than a moment. Most of the time you would probably argue that the world’s attention is divided and scattered. It takes an historic moment, something really big, truly significant, to hone those 8 billion sets of eyes to one point.

  • 1 week ago | newstalkzb.co.nz | Jack Tame

    I was taken aback by how long it had been since I’d last come to town.  It’s amazing how time creeps up on you like that. One minute you’re at Grandma and Grandad’s place every few months, knocking around with your siblings. The next you’re going through Grandad’s drawers, packing him a bag of his most precious possessions. The next, you realise it’s three years since you even drove down his street.  State Highway One was an absolute shocker.

  • 2 weeks ago | newstalkzb.co.nz | Jack Tame

    I had a funny entry in my calendar this week that took me a moment to decipher.  ‘Mava 1C anniversary’ it said.   My heart skipped a beat. Anniversary?! Oh, hang on. No. Stand down.   Forget romance. What my entry was telling me I’d just reached the anniversary for this very radio show, in which I’d shared with you our decision to become a one car household.

  • 3 weeks ago | newstalkzb.co.nz | Jack Tame

    The pictures made it look like a parody. Eleven minutes after taking off from a West Texas launch site, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space capsule touched down with its all-female celebrity crew. Bezos opened the capsule door and greeted his fiancé. One by one the women filed out, each in their snazzy blue, flared space outfits. Having technically been in space for just four minutes, the popstar Katy Perry knelt down and kissed the ground.

  • 1 month ago | newstalkzb.co.nz | Jack Tame

    In the end it was kind of an anticlimax.   After almost 18 months of anger, obfuscation, hīkoi and haka, and hundreds of thousands of submissions, the Treaty Principles Bill was voted down in fairly emphatic style. I suspect the majority of New Zealanders are so over it.   Looking back, I’d say David Seymour and ACT largely got what they wanted. Te Pāti Māori were perhaps even greater political beneficiaries.

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Jack Tame
Jack Tame @jacktame
10 May 25

Why don't more NZers trust government to do the right thing? Here's my conversation with outgoing Auditor-General, John Ryan. https://t.co/JfLp3D9y4Q

Jack Tame
Jack Tame @jacktame
10 May 25

Police Commissioner Richard Chambers on the huge spike in meth use, police recruitment, institutional racism and his policing ethos. https://t.co/SV9I3trcx1

Jack Tame
Jack Tame @jacktame
3 May 25

Rangitata MP James Meager is the government's newest minister. We sat down in Timaru to discuss his portfolios and vision for change. https://t.co/MhNzU1oSDq